Telerik Forums RSShttps://www.telerik.com/urn:uuid:d1056835-f84e-4992-a606-dd747ab95522https://www.telerik.com/forums/permalink/NWgF0U74kkmmBt10erlVIgnotification emailsHi Todd,<br><br>Thank you for the nice comments. I am grad to see the change that we implemented did in fact turn out to be useful for you. I hope we'll manage to keep up with other requests that we receive from our community and continue improving user experience on our website.<br><br>Regards,<br>Natalie Farah<br />the <strong>t</strong>elerik team<div style="font-size: 10px;"><br>
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Natalie Farah<br /><br>the <b>t</b>elerik team
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<li>I don't know about a year ago, but today it seems that <em>most</em> threads and addressed and closed within the first week. That means when you get an email, you already aware of the issue and you don't need to review the full conversation history to see what's going on.</li>
<li>More importantly, ordering the messages from oldest to newest makes it VERY hard to view them on a mobile device (such as a BlackBerry). Most mobile devices that get email fetch the first x bytes and have to be told to fetch the rest. If the thread you're dealing with is very long (like some can be), it's a huge pain to download the whole message and thumb wheel all the way down just to see the new reply. It would be much more convenient to have the new messages on top.</li></ol>
<p>I would expect the situations where someone gets an email from a forum they participated in "so long ago they can't recall the context" are rare (though I know they do happen <em>occasionally</em>). Much more common is the back and forth replies that happen over a couple of days, and the current email format makes that exchange cumbersome.<br><br>Any chance we can revisit this issue? Any other MVPs have a different opinion about the forum emails?<br><br>Thanks~</p>urn:uuid:d40c5115-ebc4-4a4b-a4ba-dd4a954c260bhttps://www.telerik.com/forums/permalink/FVEM1MTrS0qkut1KlUwmCwnotification emailsHi Josef,<br><br>Your suggestion sounds great and we are definitely implementing it! It's on our todo list and I hope we will see it&nbsp;live in a matter of days. Thank you for the involvement, it really helps us deliver more.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>
Zhivko Dimitrov<br>the <b>t</b>elerik team
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Zhivko Dimitrov<br>the <b>t</b>elerik team
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